> saying such legislation would be “better from a public safety perspective”
According to whom, we the people or a bunch of authoritarians who'd like to be able to access every nook and cranny of our personal lives?
According to whom, we the people or a bunch of authoritarians who'd like to be able to access every nook and cranny of our personal lives?
Call me silly, but I think grammar is important. I hope you don't take this the wrong way!
Edit: lol, I thing I made a typo earlier.
The difference is that nearly everyone doesn't know the who/whom rule -- it is dead -- while nearly everyone does know the living pres.3sg rule, and they have trouble violating it even if in the abstract they might like to.
[1] The strongest argument in this direction is that no one in the modern day knows what whom means or under what circumstances it appears, meaning that when a whom is encountered it can only make them more confused.